Leadership Development for Advancing the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

12-13 NOVEMBER, 2018

Center for Advanced Sustainable Management at Cologne Business School Cologne, Germany

In this context, conference’s goals include the following:

Achieving a better understanding of the complexity, interconnectedness and multidimensional nature of the 17 SDGs and the respective 169 targets, with a general aim of moving from the predominantly discipline/silo focused management research and education towards a holistic and SDG related leadership development approaches and practices

Understanding the related challenges, while also identifying new opportunities and sharing best practices in developing leadership capabilities for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Global Goals

Establishing common ground for businesses, management education, policy makers, NGOs, youth, media, publishers, international organizations, associations and networks, and other stakeholders to create new and/or extend their already existing partnerships and dialogue through a better informed communication and collaboration.

There are two ways to contribute to the design and content of the conference:

To submit, promote and organize conference tracks and session proposals of special interest

To submit direct contributions (papers, extended abstracts, work in progress, research proposals, etc.) to specific conference tracks/sessions and/or related to the conference general theme

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

24 March 2018 for submitting PRME group organized conference session and panel proposals

20 April 2018 notification of PRME group organized conference session and panel acceptance

31 May 2018 deadline for submitting research inputs (abstracts, working papers, work in progress)